It’s 2024. It is shameful and unacceptable that any child should live in poverty, and that anyone should go hungry, homeless, without medicine, or without a living wage in our nation of such great wealth.
Here’s what needs to be done about it:
Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families
– Raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour.
– Unemployment insurance for all workers.
– Moratorium on farm foreclosures
– Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union.
– No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits.
– Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare. Universal health care system.
– Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages.
– Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.
– Free tuition to schools, from Pre-School to a PHD
– End Reagan era instituted taxation of Unemployment, Social Security and welfare benefits.
Make Corporate Giants Pay
– Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations.
– Close corporate tax loopholes.
– Restitution to workers’ pensions.
– Strong regulation of financial industry.
– Regulation and public ownership of utilities
– Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land
– Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs
Foreign Policy for Peace and Justice
– No more war – End military interventions
– Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). No secrecy.
– Abolish nuclear weapons
– End military interventions.
– Cut military budget and fund human needs.
Defend Democracy and Civil Rights
– End racial profiling.
– Repeal the death penalty.
– Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action.
– Legalization and protection of immigrant rights.
– Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting.
– Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth’s right to earn,learn and live.
National Reforms
– End the Electoral College
– Repeal the 2nd Amendment
– Make the ERA part of the Constitution
– Make Reproductive Rights an Amendment to the Constitution
– Increase the Supreme Court to 13
– Term limits and a code of ethics for Supreme Court Judges
– Grant Statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia
– Nationalize all public utilities
